“Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.” — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
“As Luce Iri- garay explains, "What makes me one, and perhaps even unique, is the fact that you are and I am not you.” — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
“Love is a slippery, unruly thing, and trying to control it robs us of its delicious unpredictability.” — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
“it is our perpetual dissatisfaction with ourselves that causes us to approach the world as a space of possibility that has the power to… — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
“Older people are wise not only because they have lived longer. They're wise because they have lost more.” — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
“We routinely replace damanged parts of ourselves with new ones that are, arguably, more resilient, more able to handle challenges. As long as we… — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
“Yet if we are to take the Lacanian account of singularity seriously, we must admit that what really counts in life is not our… — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
“Life has a way of turning things around. Those who mourn well know this. As a result, they also live well--with courage and curiosity.” — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
“we are tempted to erase the unsettling elements of the other's alterity-the ways in which the other does not coincide with our fantasies-because we… — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
“What makes this inner void so difficult to deal with is that it's amorphous. We can't fix it because we can't pinpoint its precise… — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer once put it, we insist on living our lives "with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible, just as we blow… — Mari Ruti Copy Share Image
